U.S. players celebrate their victory in the Women's World Cup final soccer match between U.S. and the Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France, on July 7, 2019. The U.S. won 2-0.

Fix streets, then crosswalks

I live in North Oak Cliff. The city has been spending big bucks on installing beautiful crosswalks in our and other parts of the city. Why are we wasting taxpayer money on beautiful crosswalks, when simple striping would do the job? Why not spend this money on fixing the real problem, which is the streets. The streets can and will rattle your teeth and destroy you automobile. This is just another boneheaded decision by some bureaucrat, wasting hard-earned taxpayer money. Stop the madness and fix the dang streets!

Tony L. Malone, Dallas/North Oak Cliff

Soccer field trashed weekly

I am frequent user of the the White Rock Creek Trail which takes me past Northwood Park on Royal Lane next to Royal Oaks Country Club. The soccer field at the park is used on Sunday afternoons by what appears to be an adult soccer league. This Monday morning, just like every other Monday morning, the soccer field and the surrounding grounds were littered with hundreds of empty water, soft drink and sports drink containers as well as other assorted garbage.

I'm quite confident that our already overtaxed Parks and Recreation Department gets stuck with the weekly cleanup and we, as taxpayers, the cost. My simple question is this: Why do the residents and the city of Dallas tolerate this complete and total disrespect for a public park? If the users of the park aren't willing or capable of cleaning up after themselves, they need to go elsewhere.

Jim Welch, Dallas/Preston Hollow

U.S. needed Iran inspections

This article on Iran's "violation" of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a.k.a. the Iran nuclear deal, reminds us that Iran's action in going forward with uranium enrichment is simply a case of the Trump administration reaping what it has sown. The real violation of the agreement occurred when President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement. We were told that this was necessary because we could not trust Iran. Of course, we could not trust Iran. That is precisely why we needed the agreement, which was based on inspections and verification, not trust.

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U.S. leadership is key to any such international accord. When our president abdicated that leadership, it is not surprising that Iran feels that it can breach the accord with impunity. Trump's action also imperils our country because he sends a message to the entire international community that the commitments of the United States are no longer dependable.

Alan Kazdoy, Far North Dallas

Another endless war in Iran?

This war talk by President Donald Trump is ridiculous. He is taunting a country that has deeply hated the United States since the shah of Iran was in power. Trump's glib comment about obliterating the Islamic Republic is dangerous talk. Iran has shown its willingness and readiness for war by downing the U.S. drone.

Trump and National Security Adviser John Bolton seem to think that war with Iran will be a walk in the park. The last time we heard crazy talk like that was with the shock and awe campaign.

I fear that unless Congress acts quickly to curtail Trump's actions, the United States will stumble into another endless war.

Manny Munoz, Duncanville

Nuclear pact was not a treaty

Re: "Election on Trump's mind," by Sandy Elkins, July 3 Letters.

I can't speak to what is on President Donald Trump's mind. (I flunked mind-reading class.) However, there is one misstatement in this letter that I can speak to. The Iran agreement was not a treaty. A treaty must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate. Because it was a foregone conclusion that a treaty with the conditions that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to would not be ratified, it was passed as an agreement. Had it been passed as a treaty, Trump could not have withdrawn from it without Senate approval.

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Barbara King, Dallas

Democrats helped elect Trump

The liberal bent of The Dallas Morning News has chased off most of its conservative readers leaving us with 214,000 mostly liberal subscribers — out of a metroplex of over 7 million people. The letters to the editor in Sunday's paper reflect this bias, as most of them find various reasons to find fault with President Donald Trump and criticize the evangelical right for its support of Trump.

These liberal subscribers fail to understand that Trump's victory was not a result of anyone liking him but rather because of the Democrats' failure to nominate a candidate that had a sensible plan for governance. The radical move to the left of today's Democratic Party reveals it has lost its founding of sound governing principles and of the importance of God in our world.

Their support for such policies as open borders, free health care, free college, etc., clearly shows their ignorance of the type of fiscal policy required for sound government. Their complete abdication of religious freedom and God further compounds their ability to relate to the majority of our country's patriots and religious followers. The good people in the Democratic Party should stand up and demand better candidates!

Don Pearce, Dallas/Lake Highlands

U.S. women's soccer victories

Congratulations to the U.S. women's soccer team for 1. winning the World Cup, 2. earning a New York ticker-tape parade (no armored tank braggadocio needed) and 3. demonstrating wisdom and principle by rejecting — in advance — being exploited and insulted by the McDonald's hamburger-serving autocrat in the White House.

Bill Halstead, Far North Dallas

Thanks for front-page views

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Look at you, Dallas Morning News, putting a women's sports story on the front page of the paper, and on the front page of the Sports section! Wow! It must have been a pretty important thing that happened. It was, and just a reminder, you do have lots of women sports readers in 2019.